We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.Â… The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It's important to note that Jesus and Christ are two different faith affirmations. Hardly any Christians have been taught that - they… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
People who think they can just do a non-stop flight to mystical, non-dual thinking, to get it out without going through the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
G.K. Chesterton, who was part of a Catholic conservatism that was kind and loving, not reactionary or hateful, said "We're all in… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If you're the head of the organization that has to pay salaries, bills and keep the money coming, you have to be… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I believe contemplation shows us that nothing inside us is as bad as our hatred and denial of the bad. Hating and denying it… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
